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Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there
by Carroll, Lewis (illus. John Tenniel)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, red boards, no d/j, bumping on edges and spine back broken (so back board detached); gilt cover ruling and spine titling b
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. 50th 1000. hardback. Good, red boards, no d/j, bumping on edges and spine back broken (so back board detached); gilt cover ruling and spine titling bright; black endpapers; text block fair, pages tight and unmarked; only very occasional foxing; all edges gilt.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1st pub. 1871) (also known as ""Alice through the Looking-Glass"" or simply ""Through the Looking-Glass"") is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc.
Synopsis
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC105779
- Title
- Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis (illus. John Tenniel)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, red boards, no d/j, bumping on edges and spine back broken (so back board detached); gilt cover ruling and spine titling b
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 50th 1000
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
- Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young people, comedy, poetry, Carroll, illustration, Tenniel, pseudonym
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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